Watching a Slo-Mo Train Wreck

Kaiser · 10-22-2006, 11:26 AM

I had the sickening opportunity to watch (at the game) what I termed a slow motion trainwreck yesterday. You're watching, and you know the results are going to be horrific, but you hope it won't be as bloody as it looks to be heading. Well, it was, and for the first time I was about sick to my stomach. Giving up 38 points in 22 minutes (NU was up 38-3 with 7 minutes left in the third). Losing your leading tackler to a broken leg. National laughinghouse. On the records as the worst flop ever in college football. I'm sure they'll bounce back - I hope they do, but for now I miss Coach Walker and his sage leadership now more than ever.

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- Michigan State staged the biggest comeback in NCAA Division I-A history Saturday, rallying from a 35-point third-quarter deficit to beat Northwestern 41-38 behind a blocked punt and the play of Drew Stanton.

Brett Swenson kicked the winning 28-yard field goal with 13 seconds left following a key interception by Travis Key. The result dramatically ended a four-game losing streak for the Spartans (4-4, 1-3 Big Ten) while extending the Wildcats' winless skid to five games.

Until this riveting game, the biggest comeback in major NCAA football was 31 points -- when Maryland beat Miami 42-40 on Nov. 10, 1984 and when Ohio State defeated Minnesota 41-37 on Oct. 28, 1989.

milkman21 · 10-22-2006, 12:29 PM

As a current NU grad student, I must admit it was a horrifying thing to watch--just like a cheezy horror movie where the girl in danger makes ALL the wrong moves, opens all the wrong doors, needlessly puts herself in a perilous position over and over and over again. They should replay that game set to some high tension music like in the Friday the 13th movies...

jruck37 · 10-23-2006, 07:28 AM

That was shocking, Kaiser. I didn't think Sparty had it in them.

jj · 10-28-2006, 08:59 AM

Ouch! I don't know where that came from. They'll bounce back.

Kaiser · 10-28-2006, 10:17 PM

Well, it got better for the 'Cats today - they did bounce back, eh? Only losing 17-3 against #2 Michigan while committing 5 turnovers (while #1 OSU pounced on Minnesota) means either that a) NU is getting better or, b) that #2 Michigan is going to get their ass handed to them by #1 OSU at the end of the season. I guess we'll see when OSU plays NU (in Evanston) in 2 weeks. If NU has a good game, then the OSU-MI game will mean something. If OSU trounces them, I think they will trounce MI too.

Too bad about the Spartans today though. Ouch.

FishrCutB8 · 10-29-2006, 05:08 AM

FWIW, I give your 'cats a pass this year. They're young, have faced mountians of adversity, and have to wear purple.

milkman21 · 10-29-2006, 10:02 AM

Don't knock purple. It's a very regal color...